Your articles should act as a teaser to your mailing list readers. Distribute the articles via article submission sites and then have the articles mailing list link to a landing page that has an opt in form. Again, if the content of your article is informative and interesting, the readers will want to learn more and are thus in a pre-sold state Joint Ventures: As a newbie to internet marketing, you may not yet have a significant list. But you may have a lot of ideas and information that is relevant to your niche. You could write a free, informative and factual report that has some unique tips. Package this as an ebook. You can then identify other internet marketers in a mailing list similar niche to yours and ask them if you could do a joint venture with them. An example would be to get them to use your ebook as a free bonus with one of their products. Off course somewhere in your e book will be an opt in form to your e mail list. Before you drive traffic to your opt in e mail form, you need mailing list to have set up the first few emails that your auto-responder will send to your prospects. Pay attention to how you format your messages. This is crucial to the success of your e mail campaign.